Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 9, for Green Day's August 7 show at the New Orleans Arena. Tickets are $49.50 for general admission floor tickets; $25 to $49.50 for reserved seat balcony, plus service charges.

The Kaiser Chiefs open the show.

Green Day is launching a North American tour in July in support of its upcoming "21st Century Breakdown," due May 15 from Reprise Records. "21st Century Breakdown" is Green Day's first studio album since 2004's landmark "American Idiot."

The band last performed a full show in New Orleans at the '04 Voodoo Experience in City Park. In September 2006, they joined U2 for the grand reopening of the Superdome.

In May 2008, guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool performed at One Eyed Jacks in the French Quarter as the Foxboro Hot Tubs, their semi-clandestine side project. They only played one Green Day song, the relatively obscure "Blood, Sex and Booze."